Below are the best articles we could find on Motherhood and female empowerment.
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Mother-daughter bonds within the Black community can be powerful counters against systemic oppression. We invited four moms to share their wisdom in open letters to their daughters.
Motherhood is an identity that calls for women to forgo belonging in their romantic relationships, professional aspirations, and even the public sphere in exchange for isolation and disconnection peppered with private praise drowned out by public critique and social exclusion.
For as long as I could remember I wanted to be one of those stay-at-home moms. Damn the two degrees and a promising career. I wanted to raise kids, go to the park, and make cute lunches for us all. Super difficult and thankless job, but I was here for it.
I thought motherhood would make me weak and passive but it has filled me with fury and passion instead.
Time follows no standard when you become a parent.
Even though I had spent much of the five years prior to my daughter Annie’s birth delivering babies and marveling at how infinitely varied were the ways in which their mothers responded to them, I was completely unaware of what my own response would be.
Characterized throughout American history as symbols of crisis, trauma, and grief, these women consistently reject those narratives through world-making of their own.
Try these tips to help her overcome the typical barriers girls face.
COVID-19 has exposed enduring inequality in domestic divisions of labor.
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Forget about having it all—many women these days are doing it all. Raising kids, working, caring for elderly parents, running a household, and often managing alone as a single mom.
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